Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - South Sterling, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in South Sterling who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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